Ubisoft blames “technical error” for showing pop-up ads in Assassin’s Creed

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• dinckelman@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There is 0% chance this has happened by accident. Someone ordered the developers to program for them to appear there, and that’s exactly how they ended up there

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  • SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And even if it was a technical error such as extra code/functionality they decided to scrap but left in there at some point it was discussed and planned enough to be in there which is just as bad.

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    • spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah I don’t understand why they don’t just own it. You’re a company trying to maximize profits, and tried money grubbing your way to more. Then you got caught and your customers didn’t like it. Admit it, move on to your next appallingly bad idea. Weak lies are the worst

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    • wccrawford@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m not defending Ubi here, they absolutely should have ripped this code out. They had to know the outrage that it would generate.

      But it might not have been a management decision. It could have been a “20% time” project where a developer designed and implemented a system that they thought management would like, and then it never got ripped back out after it was rejected. Those projects are usually barebones and use existing assets as much as possible, so it wouldn’t even mean that they had to stand up other systems to support it… They could just link to an existing ad from something else.

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  • DarkThoughts@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah. What kind of idiotic accident would even cause this? That's specifically programmed functions to do exactly what it did. That's honestly a mind blowingly bad excuse to make.

    Guess another reason on the pile of shit of why I continue to boycott this trash company.

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• vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  whoops, one of our developers slipped on a banana peel and accidentally hit all the right keys, over the course of a couple of hours, to accidentally implement ads in the game

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  • MeanEYE@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You see our intern was walking down the corridor with laptop in his hands after the meeting and he stumbled and accidentally coded in ads, designed format, shaders, online service for serving ads, database for storage and deployment scripts. What are the odds?

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  • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ubisoft says it was trying to put an ad for Assassin’s Creed Mirage in the main menu of other Assassin’s Creed games. However, a “technical error” caused the promotion to show up on in-game menus instead.

    There’s nothing accidental (or “accidental”) about the ad being in the game. Probably was an accident that it appeared mid-game, they need to desensitise you to ads in the menus first.

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• Nobody@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “We technically thought we would get away with this shit, which was an error. How pissed would you guys be about Coca Cola showing up in ancient Baghdad?”

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  • TangledHyphae@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I misread the title at first as “Assassin’s Greed”.

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    • LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Honestly that should have just been the article title

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• Jubei_K_08@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The system we set up to show ads accidentally showed ads.

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• capt_wolf@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Getting caught this time: Image

  When they inevitably get caught doing it again: Image

  The later, during the executive meeting: Image

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  • Zahille7@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Joey is my spirit animal

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• Why9@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “it’s easier to apologise than it is to ask for permission”.

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• Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As in “We started a trial balloon, and your unfounded criticism made us take it back.”

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• war@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What makes me really sad is that this is very obviously a sort of testing of the waters, and in a short while this will become the standard in triple A games, but people will still fucking buy them, and then that'll be the world we live in. Happens every single time.

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• tortina_original@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Rogue engineer strikes again.

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• Yokozuna@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Years back I was part of a focus group for VR and one of the questions they asked me was how accepting I would be of ads in game and well they got the most heated response from me with that one.

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• XbSuper@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeeaaah, don’t think I’ll be buying any ubi games again.

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